[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#916529: webext-privacy-badger: Symlinks to jquery and underscore libraries are ignored by Firefox

[Markus Koschany]

Package: webext-privacy-badger
Version: 2018.12.5-1
Severity: grave


Similar to Debian bug #916431 in ublock-origin, symlinks to jquery and
underscore libraries are not followed by Firefox or they are silently
ignored. I used the internal addon debugging mode of Firefox and those
Javascript libraries are not loaded anymore. Perhaps this is some kind
of sandbox feature? It used to work in Firefox ESR, so I can rule out
that Debian's system libraries are to blame here.

This issue makes webext-privacy-badger unusable at the moment. I
revert back to the embedded versions of jquery and underscore because
in theory we could simply replace them with the Debian versions but
this would be impractical and also defeat the purpose of depending on
system libraries in the first place.

It would be good if there was a way to make Firefox recognize symlinks
to system files again.

Markus



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages webext-privacy-badger depends on:
pn  fonts-open-sans   <none>
pn  libjs-jquery      <none>
pn  libjs-jquery-ui   <none>
pn  libjs-underscore  <none>

Versions of packages webext-privacy-badger recommends:
pn  firefox | firefox-esr | chromium  <none>

webext-privacy-badger suggests no packages.